Thread by @nickredmark

Want to do some thinking about the state of #gameb.

I discovered the concepts and the thought leaders beginning of last year - like many others - through podcasts.

That's when I decided to dedicate my free time to participating to "it" - or in other words to do what I find intrinsically meaningful and share.

A key aesthetic of the emerging gameb twitter wave was video calls. That we would reach out to strangers and connect in a higher bandwidth way.

Then there was the "way" of communicating. Rule omega. Presencing, circling. I guess the highest synthesis of that is Vervaeke's "dialogos".

On the tech side, my personal state of the art is discord's multichannel chatroom videocalls (functionally what I call a "digital patio" where you can hangout and see/join/start conversations in spontaneous fashion).

When it comes to personal practice, again, Vervaeke's "ecology of practices" course on his channel seems to be state-of-the art, combining traditional techniques with latest cog psy.

Then comes async (text based) communication and sensemaking tools. That's been my personal area of exploration. My sense there is we need a high verbosity think-out-loud kind of tool with emerging structure.

Roam might be the state of the art there. I favor a more chronologically strict approach (what @vgr calls log level). And one that's integrated with an existing social network for network effects (hence tweetliner).

@vgr Then there is the #gameb "scene" itself. And what I've seen here as a whole is a lot of dysfunctionality.

@vgr For starters, last year all of the thought leaders spent their time on the fb group - probably the worst platform of all because it satisfiesnone of the aesthetics described. That attracted everyone and crushed the twitter #gameb wave.

@vgr And then during peak attention, beginning this year, the high profile drama started happening in the fb group. Vinay Gupta and later Brent Cooper kicked out. Hall, Schmachtenberger, Bonnitta Roy leaving the group.

@vgr Drama continued in waves and ripples for months, now Hall doesn't seem to like to associate with gameb anymore and Rutt is trying to revive the reddit group.

@vgr Obviously then there is all of the work going on in private. People finding their peers and doing the hard stuff: building sovereignty, relationships and solutions.

@vgr Hall once said something along the lines of "when #gameb becomes a movement it's already dead". Maybe that's what happened. May what has been built in a spirit of truth and care prevail and find itself again in renewed configuration.

@vgr Another important aspect I forgot to mention is the source material, its aggregation and study. Given that much of it is generated in conversation (notable exception Hall's deep code articles), many set out to collect transcripts. I aggregated it all here: libraryb.now.sh

@vgr A question that I asked myself a lot during this time was: how can "the scene" (meaning the group of people interested in bringing about #gameb) become more coherent? Right now I'm focused more on myself and my "position within the network".

@vgr But more concretely, I'm trying to establish communication channels and shared knowledge bases around topics that concern me personally. "do things locally - share learnings globally". Or "do things in a way that makes it easier for others to do them".